Kamloops Pride

EDITORIAL – One more step toward making Pride Parade truly inclusive

August 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KAMLOOPS IS CELEBRATING Pride Week this week. Think about that statement for a moment. The city, not just those within the 2SLGBTQPIA+ [Continue]

EDITORIAL – As the winter muck recedes, rainbow crosswalk emerges

February 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AN INTERESTING SIGHT is emerging from the winter snow between the Kamloops Museum and St. Andrew’s on the Square. It still has a coat of [Continue]

PETERS – Let’s stop calling Kamloops Pride a ‘special interest group’

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHEN THE IDEA OF FUNDING A RAINBOW CROSSWALK came forward to Kamloops council a couple of weeks back, it was unanimously supported by those around the table. But before they [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Rainbow crosswalk is for the rest of us, too

August 14, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SINCE I WAS LESS than complimentary about City council’s dithering on the rainbow crosswalk, it’s only fitting that I comment on the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Who knew a crosswalk could cost $10,000?

July 4, 2019 // 11 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF A BUSINESS WAS RUN like government, it would go broke for lack of customers, who would soon give up waiting to be served. Not that [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Flag debate – making the world a more complicated place

June 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S TRUE THE WORLD is more complicated than it used to be but that’s because we make it that way. In the old days, a community group [Continue]